Jadeite
Open Gaming Enthusiast
When Keith Baker, the original creator of Eberron, ponders about leaving the setting because he's not happy with the terms of DMGuild, I have little need for DMGuild, either.And the DMGuild?
When Keith Baker, the original creator of Eberron, ponders about leaving the setting because he's not happy with the terms of DMGuild, I have little need for DMGuild, either.And the DMGuild?
Did he? I thought he just wasn't happy about the OGL situation? I didn't know it was about the DM's Guild itself.When Keith Baker, the original creator of Eberron, ponders about leaving the setting because he's not happy with the terms of DMGuild, I have little need for DMGuild, either.
Did he? I thought he just wasn't happy about the OGL situation? I didn't know it was about the DM's Guild itself.
Yeah, I read that one. It seems to indicate that's he's unhappy with WotC, in part because he's limited to selling it on the DM's Guild, not that the site itself is causing problems.![]()
Keith Baker asks about walking away from Eberron.
I NEVER thought I'd see this. I’m facing a difficult decision, and I’d like to get your opinion on it. I love Eberron. There are many corners of the setting I've yet to explore and many details I’ve imagined that I’ve yet to share. But the simple fact is that it’s not mine. Eberron is wholly...www.enworld.org
I take this as him being unhappy to share so much of the profit and how working with a setting that is technically not his limits what he can do with it, not the terms per se (other than the share %).When Keith Baker, the original creator of Eberron, ponders about leaving the setting because he's not happy with the terms of DMGuild, I have little need for DMGuild, either.
If they use those IPs for stuff like VRGtRL or especially the Spelljammer set, I don't need Hasbro or WotC.
MHSTtMTaO(My Head Spins Trying to Make Them all Out).What is VRGtRL?
Volo's Real Guide to Real Life?
Ah.
Van Richten's Guide to Raven Loft...
Those abbreviations are making me fuzzy...
Am I correct in "remembering" that that's the guy who won that contest in 2000 when WoTC put out the call for campaign worlds? With the winner getting their world published.When Keith Baker, the original creator of Eberron, ponders about leaving the setting because he's not happy with the terms of DMGuild, I have little need for DMGuild, either.
Am I correct in "remembering" that that's the guy who won that contest in 2000 when WoTC put out the call for campaign worlds? With the winner getting their world published.
I haven't seen a single 3pp or RPG you- tuber come out and ask us to go back to buying WotC products so they can stay in business. If 3pp need us to buy WotC products they'd surely let us know.
There is a difference between disappear and shrink.The demand for dice is not going to suddenly disappear because WotC isn't selling Spelljammer 2: Even Less Content This Time
No, it won't. If you want to keep making this argument, then you need to show some receipts.
Identifying when someone is gaslighting me and others in this thread is factually speaking not gaslighting.
Maybe this is true, but the community as a whole doesn't.Dollar for dollar or Euro for Euro, the 3pp who I want to support disproportionately gain far more from my direct support than they lose from any hypothetical boycott of WotC by me. I do far more to help the 3pp I like to light their homes by spending my limited funds on them rather than WotC.
The hobby is different than the market. D&D will not disappear if WOTC disappeared. It would not have disappeared if WOTC deauthorized OGL 1.0a. Both of those things would hurt the market and 3p creators.Ryan Dancey helped engineer the OGL, in part, so that the TTRPG hobby would never need WotC or TSR or any singular company to carry the torch for D&D.
No they are not. I know for a fact they are not ALL are playing other games because I know some of them.All those people who stopped playing D&D? They're playing other games now.
A boycott big enough to hurt 3Ps is going to mean WotC was probably already doing something bad enough to hurt 3Ps.There is a difference between disappear and shrink.
If there is a boycott of WOTC 5E content the market absolutely will shrink and 3p creators will be hurt.
DIdn't say all.No they are not. I know for a fact they are not ALL are playing other games because I know some of them.
I think that most that stopped playing D&D just simply stopped and did not move on. I do not know that is factually true, but I think it is ture.
What 3pp have you produced? Or are you speaking on other people's behalf here?Well I asked you to start buying them, so that is one.
Only a fraction of 3pp creators will be hurt, and those are people who are making tie-ins, like map packs for published adventures.There is a difference between disappear and shrink.
If there is a boycott of WOTC 5E content the market absolutely will shrink and 3p creators will be hurt.
Oh, so that is what this is about.Yes it will.
We lost a paying player in early January due to a WOTC boycott. I further was (and still am) spending extra time preparing because some remaining players won't use DNDBeyond.
Here's a graph of the PF2e subreddit growth.And if we're going for anecdotes, I know that the subreddits for SWADE and PbtA have grown, with many, many people talking about moving to those games, and I know that my own table has had no problem moving to SWADE. And I know that's also true of other games as well, because I see people there talking about having moved onto different games (not just SWADE or PbtA).
Ah yes, but even if some 3pp suffer in the short-term from any hypothetical boycott by me, the overall 3pp community will grow because reasons. But don't worry. Not all is without hope; maybe just maybe good fortune will trickle back down to you in time as the greater 3pp grows through my direct contributions.Yes it will.
We lost a paying player in early January due to a WOTC boycott. I further was (and still am) spending extra time preparing because some remaining players won't use DNDBeyond.